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Latest episodes

• 31 Days of Halloween | Day 1: When the Gates Open — Samhain

  October 1, 2026 · 28 min

  Before Halloween had pumpkins, candy, costumes, or trick-or-treating, there was Samhain. At the edge of winter, the cattle came home, the fires burned, and old stories warned that the boundaries between worlds had opened. The dead could…

• The Disappearance of the Sodder Children (West Virginia)

  September 30, 2026 · 24 min

  On Christmas Eve 1945, the Sodder family home in Fayetteville, West Virginia, burned to the ground. George and Jennie Sodder escaped with four of their children, but five others were supposedly trapped upstairs. When the ashes cooled…

• John Brown and the Ghosts of Harpers Ferry (West Virginia)

  September 29, 2026 · 27 min

  In October 1859, John Brown and eighteen men descended on Harpers Ferry with a plan to seize the federal arsenal, arm enslaved people, and ignite a war against slavery. Thirty-six hours later, sixteen people were dead, Brown was captured…

• The Mothman of Point Pleasant (West Virginia)

  September 28, 2026 · 20 min

  In November 1966, two young couples driving through an abandoned World War II explosives facility outside Point Pleasant, West Virginia, encountered something they couldn't explain: a towering humanoid figure with enormous wings and…

• The Haunted Amusement Park: Lake Shawnee (West Virginia)

  September 27, 2026 · 22 min

  Deep in Mercer County, West Virginia, the rusting remains of Lake Shawnee Amusement Park are slowly being reclaimed by the forest. Long before the rides arrived, the land was the site of frontier violence and an Indigenous settlement…

• The Ghosts of Moundsville: West Virginia Penitentiary (West Virginia)

  September 26, 2026 · 20 min

  For more than a century, the West Virginia Penitentiary at Moundsville held thousands of prisoners behind the walls of a Gothic stone fortress. Ninety-four men were executed there. Riots left inmates dead. Conditions became so brutal that…

• The Mount Rainier Murders: The Tube Sock Killer (Washington)

  September 25, 2026 · 24 min

  In 1985, two couples were murdered months apart in the forests surrounding Mount Rainier. In both cases, a woman was found with a white athletic tube sock tied around her neck using the same distinctive knot. For twenty-five years…

• The Winged Cryptid On The Wrong Mountain: Batsquatch (Washington)

  September 24, 2026 · 24 min

  In 1994, eighteen-year-old Brian Canfield was driving along a dark road in the foothills of Washington when his pickup suddenly died. Then something dropped out of the sky. He described a nine-foot creature covered in blue fur, with yellow…